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Noun
Definition: something reduced to its minimal form; "the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"; "the bare skeleton of a novel"
Definition: a scandal that is kept secret; "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet"
Definition: the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
Definition: the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton"
Definition: The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
Definition: A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
Verb
Definition: to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize